Russian oil output jumped by almost 4% in September from the previous month to 11.11mn barrels per day (mbp), a new post-Soviet record-high, as companies ramped up drilling amid improved oil prices, Energy Ministry data showed yesterday. The oil output rose amid the talks between the leading global producers, including Russia, to curb production...

The names of people being investigated for playing “an active role” in the downing of flight MH17 will be confirmed by early 2017, Australia’s foreign minister said on Sunday as she raised the prospect of a Lockerbie-style prosecution. Australia is part of the Dutch-led criminal inquiry into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A US spy plane was spotted again flying off the coasts of Syria near the Russian base in Tartus while another one was picked up by radars as it was conducting reconnaissance operations over the Russian fleet near Crimea in the black sea, western websites said. …read more Source: Fars News...

The deputy head of the Mejlis — the Crimean Tatars’ elected assembly — was on September 7 released from three weeks’ involuntary detention in a psychiatric hospital in Simferopol, on the Black Sea. …read more Source: World...

WASHINGTON — A year after Russia waded into the war in Syria, aiming to flex its national security muscles and prop up beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow appears no closer to one of its military goals: getting the US to cooperate in the skies or on the ground in the civil war, and prospects for a diplomatic resolution seem dim. The...

Damascus, SANA – The Intercept website published a leaked UN report which reveals that the US and European sanctions are punishing Syrians and crippling aid work in Syria. The site said that the sanctions and the crisis in Syria have destabilized every sector of Syrian economy, transforming a once self-sufficient country into an aid-dependent...